EC pocket-book question...

[1st-and-keys]

Can anyone offer some info on this item. The Vault of Horror. -- New York : Ballantine, 1965 #1 1st printing. It appears to be a pocket book which reprinted some early EC stories. I'm trying to learn more about it's availablity and value. Thanks

 

[Red Hook]

These were my first introduction to EC. Somewhere in there is reproduced the story of the guy who is making his way back to his wife, and he doesn't realize he is a moldering corpse.

 

I think a couple of these must have been earlier than 1965....I seem to remember reading one around 1963. I was nine or ten and I can distinctly remember my hair standing on end.

[1st-and-keys]

These were my first introduction to EC. Somewhere in there is reproduced the story of the guy who is making his way back to his wife, and he doesn't realize he is a moldering corpse.

 

I think a couple of these must have been earlier than 1965....I seem to remember reading one around 1963. I was nine or ten and I can distinctly remember my hair standing on end.

 

hey hook ...today was the first time I ran across this. Seems pretty kool.I remember reading the old marvel pocket books but I did not know that EC had some too.

[Red Hook]

Hiya 1+K........Yep, I had some of those old Marvel Paperbacks too. I really used to get a kick out of them! I think they are fun.

[spider9698]

There were 5 books published by Ballantyne books from 1964-1966. Each book reprinted several EC stories. An additional treat was that each book sported a Frazetta painting as a bonus.

[Red Hook]

So it was 1964. That makes sense. Thanks!

 

I'll bet Tales From the Crypt was the early one I saw.

[greggy]

Here are the other 4!

 

[goldust40]

Fabulous covers. Are these books gettable, and how much do they usually go for?

[Red Hook]

Goldie, one thing I've realized......if you wait long enough..... everything washes up on Ebay's shore....

 

Of course, "how much" is the big question.....

 

Thanks for the scans Greggy......is it the Tales from the Crypt one that has the story I was referring to at the top of the thread?

[goldust40]

Goldie, one thing I've realized......if you wait long enough..... everything washes up on Ebay's shore....

 

Of course, "how much" is the big question.....

 

You're right of course, Red......

 

One thing I noticed in that Frazetta cover for the Tales Of The Incredible book is how similar the alien in the picture is to Berni Wrightson's Un - Men (specifically Cranius) who debuted in Swamp Thing 2 (1972) along with their master, Anton Arcane.

 

Every horror/sci-fi/fantasy artist borrowed at least a bit from Frazetta, and Ingels/Krigstein acolyte Wrightson was no exception.

[greggy]

Goldie, one thing I've realized......if you wait long enough..... everything washes up on Ebay's shore....

 

Of course, "how much" is the big question.....

 

Thanks for the scans Greggy......is it the Tales from the Crypt one that has the story I was referring to at the top of the thread?

The Tales from the Crypt is copyrighted 1964!

[1st-and-keys]

Here are the other 4!

 

 

Great now I gotta track down the others ......how available are these though?

[Bonds25]

What DON'T you own???

[Larryw7]

I got the two Bradbury books from eBay. I payed about twenty bucks apiece, and neither are particularly high grade.

[1st-and-keys]

I got the two Bradbury books from eBay. I payed about twenty bucks apiece, and neither are particularly high grade.

 

...thanks!

[greggy]

What DON'T you own???